Top 192 Quotes & Sayings by John Bunyan

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.

Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.

In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.

In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies.

An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

His love is what makes us live, love, sing, and praise forever.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.

The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.

To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

He that is down needs fear no fall. He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall have God to be his Guide.

Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there is no saving... Where there is grafting there will always be a cutting, the graft must be let in with a wound; to stick it onto the outside or to tie it on with a string would be of no use. Heart must be set to heart and back to back or there will be no sap from root to branch. And this, I say, must be done by a wound, by a cut.

In prayer, it is better to have heart without words, than words without heart. Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin entice a man to cease from prayer. The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, did you believe? But, were you doers or talkers only?

I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.

I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.

Humility is the light of understanding.

He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.

No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.

If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won't do whatever they want, they'll do whatever He wants.

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.

The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver.

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end

I would say to my soul, O my soul, this is not the place of despair; this is not the time to despair in. As long as mine eyes can find a promise in the Bible, as long as there is a moment left me of breath or life in this world, so long will I wait or look for mercy, so long will I fight against unbelief and despair.

As your faith is, such your hope will be. Hope is never ill when faith is well, nor strong if faith be weak.

Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.

Christian, let God's distinguishing love to you be a motive to you to fear Him greatly. He has put His fear in your heart, and may not have given that blessing to your neighbor, perhaps not to your husband, your wife, your child, or your parent. Oh, what an obligation should this thought lay upon your heart to greatly fear the Lord! Remember also that this fear of the Lord is His treasure, a choice jewel, given only to favorites, and to those who are greatly beloved.

I saw, moreover, that it was not my good frame of heart that made my righteousness better, nor my bad frame that made my righteousness worse; for my righteousness was Jesus Christ himself, the same yesterday and today and forever.

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

To lay hold of and receive the gospel by a true and saving faith is an act of the soul that has been made a new creature, which is the workmanship of God... Wherefore whoever receiveth the grace that is tendered in the gospel, they must be quickened by the power of God, their eyes must be opened, their understandings illuminated, their ears unstopped, their hearts circumcised, their wills also rectified, and the Son of God revealed in them.

It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person.

Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.

It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.

The reason why the Christians in this day are at such a loss as to some things is that they are contented with what comes from man's mouth, without searching and kneeling before God to know of Him the truth of things.

The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.

Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.

You have chosen the roughest road, but it leads straight to the hilltops.

The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.

The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction

Hope is never ill when faith is well.

It is sad to see how the most of men neglect their precious souls, turning their backs upon the glorious gospel, and little minding a crucified Jesus, when, in the meanwhile, their bodies are well provided for, their estates much regarded, and the things of this present life are highly prized, as if the darling was of less value than a clod of earth; an immortal soul, than a perishing body; a precious Saviour, than unsatisfying creatures.

Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.

Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.

Grace can pardon our ungodliness and justify us with Christ's righteousness; it can put the Spirit of Jesus Christ within us; it can help us when we are down; it can heal us when we are wounded; it can multiply pardons, as we through frailty multiply transgressions.

Run when I can, walk when I cannot run, and creep when I cannot walk.

If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.

The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

It is possible to learn all about the mysteries of the Bible and never be affected by it in one's soul. Great knowledge is not enough.

He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.